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The CPU In Your Head
Biology concepts – homeostasis, neuroendocrine system, hormone, pituitary, hypothalamusLet’s face it, everything I know about computers I learned from Tron and Tron Legacy. What I learned most from the...
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Thinking Asymmetrically About Hormones
Biology concepts – neuroendocrine system, bilateral asymmetry, internal asymmetry, hormones, endocrine glandsJack Nicholson did some try asymmetric thinking in The Shining. The fact that he was driven...
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What the Heck Are Those Doing There?
Biology concepts – internal asymmetry, neuroendocrine, reproduction, hormone, absence symmetryThis is the Decatur County Courthouse in Greensburg Indiana. A mulberry tree has been growing out of the...
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Ovaries March To A Different Drummer
Biology concepts – neuroendocrine, ovary, bilateral asymmetry, internal asymmetry, absence asymmetry, hormones, ovulationMany things we are taught in school just aren’t so. The Salem witch trials, for...
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Organs Don’t Always Follow The Plan
Biology concepts – internal anatomy, asymmetry, symmetry breaking, primary ciliary dyskinesia, situs solitus, situs inversusYou hold your right hand over your heart for the national anthem, correct? So...
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It’s 11 PM, Do You Know Where Your Organs Are?
Biology concepts – situs inversus, situs ambiguous, dextrocardia, dextroposition, isomerism, canalizationCatherine O’Hara has situs inversus, but she doesn’t have any strange stories to tell about it...
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One Egg, Two People, A Bunch of Reasons
Biology concepts – twinning, placenta, amnion, monozygotic, conjoined twins, in vitrofertilizationTwins are always a subject of interest. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are twins in the Avenger and...
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When A Twin Vanishes
Biology Concepts – conjoined twins, resorbed twin, monozygotic twin, spina bifida, fetus in fetu, vanishing twinAbby and Brittany Hensel are the ultimate in teamwork. They drive a car, walk, go...
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Epigenetics And The Evil Twin
Biology concepts – epigenetics, monozygotic twins, mirror image twinsThe armadillo is a fascinating animal, and shares a couple of characteristics only with humans. People and armadillos are the only...
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Looking Sideways In The Mirror
Biology Concepts – platyhelminthes, asymmetry, bilateral symmetry, evolution, cephalization, natural selection, fish, lepidophagyWhat is the largest living structure on Earth? No, it’s not the 2200...
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The Eyes Have It
Biology concepts – asymmetry, lateral polymorphism, flatfish, evolution, copepod, ecology, nicheRay Harryhausen was the most famous of the stop motion artists in the movies. This version of the Cyclops...
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The Search For The Unicorn - Slightly Off Center
Biology concepts – teeth, narwhals, unicorns, bilateral symmetry, evolution, mechanosensing, asymmetryThe movie Legend starred Tom Cruise and Mia Sara, as well as a bunch of little people – you know,...
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This Nose Knows
Biology concepts – evolution, asymmetry, bilateral symmetry, phonic lips, whales, echolocation, encephalization quotient, densityThis picture gives you a good idea of just how big a spermaceti whale...
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The Bird Jaws of Life
Biology concepts – ecology, radiative speciation, talpid, tomia, temporomandibular joint, cranial kinesis, bilateral symmetry, asymmetryYou’ve heard the phrase, “As scarce as hen’s teeth?” Well, you’ve...
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Why Do Males And Females Look Different?
Biology concepts – sexual dimorphism, phenotype, evolution, sexual selection, secondary sex characteristics, reproductive success, natural selectionElephants are an animal that we can picture easily in...
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Boy Plants Are From Mars …..
Biology concepts – sexual dimorphism, plants, monoecious, dioecious, pistil, stamen, floral scent, ecology, ecological selectionCharles Darwin missed the boat on linking his sexual and natural...
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Boys Will Be Boys… And Then Girls
Biology concepts – botany, monoecious, dichogamy, imperfect and perfect flowers, self-pollination, cross-pollination, self-incompatibility, heterostylyThis clip shows the mating of hermaphroditic...
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The Flower Child Must Be Confused
Biology concepts – dioecy, heterodichogamy, diphasy, plant breeding systems, evolution, botanyBananas grow from cuttings of the previous banana plant. Each plant produces just one bunch and is then cut...
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Plants Aren’t Just Male Or Female
Biology concepts – trioecy, sea anemone, sex determination systems, hermaphroditism, ecology, polyploidyWe think of animals has having two sexes, male and female. Of course there are a few...
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Half Male, Half Female, Completely Weird
Biology concepts – sex determination system, gynandromorphs, non-disjunction, mitosis, bilateral symmetry, chimera, mosaicismArdhanarishvara is just form of the god Shiva. As a male, he is considered...
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